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Category: Docker

If you work with Docker, there’s no doubt you heard about Kubernetes. I won’t introduce this amazing gift from Google. This post is about a particular ressource, the Ingress and its controller. Introduced as a beta feature when releasing Kubernetes 1.2, the Ingress ressource is the missing part to open your cluster to the world.

Sure, if you’re lucky enough to run Kubernetes in a supported cloud environment (AWS, Google Cloud…), you can provision a load balancer automatically when creating a new Service. But…that’s it. If you need to do SSL termination, or just some simple routing rules, you’re stuck. This is where the Ingress ressource steps in.